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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—H

Halloo when out of the Wood

or Never halloo till you are out of the wood. Never think you are safe from the attacks of robbers till you are out of the forest. “Call no man happy till he is dead.” “Many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip.”

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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